Let's talk network load balancing..... [Archive]

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phatmonky

Apr19-04, 09:52 AM

I'll spare the details, but among other things, I'm looking to get two 100Mb NICs setup in a local server with some means of loadbalancing. I know 2k server advanced and datacenter has NLB from MS, but I'm only running basic server on this machine.

Any third party options? thanks!

dduardo

Apr19-04, 10:00 AM

http://lcic.org/load_balancing.html

phatmonky

Apr19-04, 10:02 AM

Let's clarify. Load balancing options for win2k server.

syano

Apr19-04, 06:42 PM

You can go to shareware.com and search for load balancing software. There are a few nice 3rd party packages but they are expensive. I would not recommend implementing a freeware version of NLB on a production server.

Windows Server 2003 Standard edition supports NLB out of the box. You could easily end up investing more money into a 3rd party solution for Win2000 than you would invest upgrading to Win2003 Standard edition.